PERSONAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 4042, 1 September 1931, Page 60

PERSONAL.

Air R. M'Kegg, after a brief visit to Dunedin, has left onTiis return to Rarotonga.

St. David’s Presbyterian Church, Auckland, has extended a call to the Rev. W B. Black, of St. Paul’s, Christchurch. At a'recent examination of the Dunedin Central Cadet Nursing Division, St. John Ambulance Brigade, Doreen Ross was successful in gaining her first aid certificate. Messrs A. C. Cameron and A. C. Leary have returned to Dunedin after a 14 days’ tour of the Central Otago branches of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. Air John T. Leech has been elected president of the Society of Alusicians of : Otago, following the resignation of Mr C. A. Martin, who is leaving shortly for England. At the Wellington Competition Society's festival Alias Alargaret Seelye, of Dunedin, gained second place in the recitation for lady or gentleman, the contest piece being “ The Call of Alaoriland.” Miss Dorothy Clark, of Dunedin, gained second place in the ladies’ Shakesperian recitation, the contest piece being “ Queen Margaret on Courage.” Mr R. A. Anderson, of Invercargill, a director of the Bank of New Zealand, who has been on a visit to Queensland and New South Wales, returned by the Alonowai, which arrived at Wellington on Tuesday. Dr I. J Cunningham, who is attached to the Department of Agriculture, -returned to New Zealand on Tuesday by the Alonowai. after two years and a-half study of animal nutrition research work in England and Scotland. Air Albert Spencer, president of the Auckland Provincial Employers’ Association, has been appointed (says a Press Association message from Auckland) to represent the New Zealand Employers’ Federation at the annual meeting of the governing body of the International Labour Office at Geneva.

Mr L. F. Jameson Taylor (Invercargill), who was a flying-officer in the New Zealand Territorial Air Force, has come to England (says our London correspondent writing on July 21) to endeavour to join the Royal Air Force. At present he is staying with Mr and Mrs F. Wood at Cheam, Surrey. Dr Ernest Charles Lindsay, who is issuing the bulletins in connection with the Duke of Gloucester’s illness, is a surgeon of the London Hospital and a Fellow Associate of the Surgeons of Great Britain and the Royal Society of Medicine. He is a son of the Rev. George Lindsay, of Christchurch, New Zealand, and is a graduate of Otago University.

Dr S. L. Geerin, formerly of Dunedin, arrived at Wellington on Tuesday by the Alonowai, after four years abroad. Dr Geerin was trained at Otago University, and was for 18 months in Wellington before leaving for England and the Continent. In England, Berlin, and Vienna he furthered his medical studies, paying attention more particularly to surgery. Cabled advice has been received that Dr Kenneth Pacey, son of Mr and Mrs H. E. Pacey, of Palmerston North, lias taken his M.D. degree at the Melbourne University. Dr Pacey will leave Melbourne in October on a visit to his parents. and will go on to London in November to continue his studies in terms of a travelling scholarship which was awarded to him at the beginning of this year. The Sarah Ann Rhodes travelling fellowship has been awarded to Miss VioletA. Macmillan, of the Otago University, by the Victoria College Council. The fellowship provides for one year’s travel overseas. Miss Macmillan has been engaged in home science work in the rural districts in Otago. She will be engaged in similar work in the United States and Europe. On her return to New Zealand she will probably be offered a lectureship. Mr J. H. Heaney, who has recently retired from the managership of the firm of Messrs Scoullar and Chisholm, Ltd., after 51 years’ service, was met bj’ the employees of the firm on Saturday morning and was presented with an illuminated address. His successor, Mr T. T. Chisholm, made the presentation, and referred in eulogistic terms to Air Heaney’s long and faithful service. Mr Heaney suitably replied. The Rev. John Hubert Dickinson. M.A.. Oxford University, was consecrated a bishop at St. Paul’s pro-Cathedral on Sunday morning (says a Press Association telegram from Wellington), having been nominated for the office of Assistant Bishop of Melanesia. The Primate. Archbishop A. W. Averill, conducted the service, assisted by the Bishops of Waikato. Wellington, and Melanesia, the last-named preaching the sermon. Other bishops present were the Bishops of Dunedin. Christchurch, and Nelson. Air D. C. Muir has been appointed manager of the Dunedin branch of the J. Inglis Wright Advertising Agency. Mr Muir, who was educated at the Otago Boys’ High School and Otago University, was for some years a solicitor in Dunedin. For two years he acted as director of Market Research to the Goldberg Advertising Agency in Wellington. During the earlier part of 1931 he was appointed publicity organiser to the New Zealand Law Society, and on completion of the work assigned to him he joined' the staff of the J. Inglis Wright Agency in Wellington. Air Inglis Wright will remain in Dunedin as director of the firm.